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By: Bloomberg31st August 2018
Canada’s precarious relationship with its vast oil riches flared up again Thursday after a federal court struck down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approval of a key pipeline, reviving fears about the country’s ability to get its resources to market.
While the government pledged to press ahead... →

By: Creamer Media Reporter 23rd August 2018
In an effort to train and develop a local workforce for a greenfield operation Lydian Armenia invested in simulators with Professional Services from Immersive Technologies. The new mine has a 4km downhill loaded haul with up to 10 percent grade, creating additional need for operators to be... →

By: Reuters2nd August 2018
Canada will soften the impact of a planned carbon tax on major emitters of greenhouse gases after businesses complained it would make them less competitive with the United States, officials said on Wednesday.
The move underlines the challenges facing Canada as it tries to deal with Washington... →

By: Reuters24th July 2018
Canada has created a new Cabinet position to help exporters look beyond the United States and there will be resources for small businesses that want to take advantage of new trade deals, the new minister for export promotion said on Tuesday.
Mary Ng, who vaulted to Cabinet-level last week to... →

By: Reuters28th June 2018
The Canadian government said on Wednesday it had rejected the proposed Ajax openpit gold and copper mine in the Pacific province of British Columbia, citing what it said were significant adverse environmental effects.
The plan to develop the site had been put forward by KGHM International, a... →

By: Reuters1st June 2018
US President Donald Trump on Friday fired back at Canada after Ottawa and other American allies retaliated against Washington's steel and aluminum tariffs, and appeared to threaten possible action against Canada's lumber industry.
"Canada has treated our Agricultural business and Farmers very... →

By: Reuters31st May 2018
Canada will impose retaliatory tariffs on C$16.6-billion worth of US exports and challenge US steel and aluminum tariffs under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Thursday.
The Canadian tariffs are... →

By: Henry Lazenby29th May 2018
Ottawa announced on Tuesday that it has reached agreement with pipeline builder and operator Kinder Morgan to buy the existing Trans Mountain pipeline and associated controversial expansion project for C$4.5-billion, in the clearest-yet government signal that the oil expansion project is of... →

By: Henry Lazenby8th May 2018
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) will seek standing as an intervenor in two upcoming court reference cases launched by the governments of British Columbia and Saskatchewan. In British Columbia, the provincial government is asking the courts if they have the power to regulate oil shipments,... →

By: Henry Lazenby4th May 2018
Ottawa announced on Thursday that it will intervene in the constitutional reference case filed by the government of British Columbia under the British Columbia Constitutional Questions Act. “We are confident in Parliament’s jurisdiction and will intervene on the question in order to defend our... →

By: Reuters1st May 2018
Canada has repeated its position that imposing punitive trade measures would hurt jobs in both countries, in reaction to US President Donald Trump's decision to postpone steel and aluminium tariffs that were set to go into effect on Tuesday.
The Trump administration said on Monday that the 25%... →

By: Henry Lazenby1st May 2018
A lack of new mining projects in the development pipeline of Canada’s Northwest Territories (NT) is threatening to derail the region’s economic growth outlook, the latest ‘Territorial Outlook’ by The Conference Board of Canada (CBoC) has found.
The independent Ottawa-headquartered think tank... →

By: Henry Lazenby27th April 2018
A reference court case brought by the environment-focused minority provincial government of British Columbia that seeks a confirmation of the province's constitutional rights to defend against the risks of a bitumen spill has been criticised by Canada’s petroleum producers as “just another stall... →

By: Henry Lazenby18th April 2018
A slim majority of Canadians and British Columbians have come forward in favour of the proposed twinning of Kinder Morgan’s diluted bitumen pipeline connecting Canada’s Alberta oil patch with new markets in the Far East, via the West Coast. A new survey conducted by the nonprofit Angus Reid... →

By: Reuters16th April 2018
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday moved to end an escalating crisis over a Kinder Morgan Canada oil pipeline, saying Ottawa was prepared to offer financial aid to ensure the project went ahead.
Trudeau cited investor confidence as one reason to help Kinder Morgan Canada, part of... →

By: Reuters28th March 2018
Canada will act to prevent the smuggling of cheap steel and aluminum into the North American market to avoid new US tariffs on the metals, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday.
Trudeau said this month he was aware of concerns that countries facing the tariffs could try to ship supplies... →

By: Reuters21st March 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday he remained optimistic Canada would get a good deal at the NAFTA modernisation talks amid signs negotiators could be closer to settling one of the trade pact's most contentious issues.
Officials are due to meet next month for the eighth round of... →

By: Reuters13th March 2018
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised aluminium and steelworkers on Monday he would defend them against possible US tariffs and called US President Donald Trump to stress that "mutually beneficial" cross-border supply chains should be preserved.
Trump said last week he would impose... →

By: Creamer Media Reporter 6th March 2018
The countdown has begun: bauma CONEXPO AFRICA opens its doors for the third time in one week. The largest trade fair for construction machinery, building material machines, mining machines and construction vehicles in Africa continues to attract international participation, highlighted by four... →

By: Henry Lazenby1st March 2018
The Canadian mining industry has welcomed the federal 2018 budget that was announced this week, highlighting particular support for the extension of the Mineral Exploration Tax Credit and several additional funds made available for critical skills training.
Canada's Budget 2018, tabled by... →

By: Henry Lazenby23rd February 2018
The political impasse over the much-needed expansion of crude oil export capacity from Alberta through Canada's West Coast seems to have been temporarily resolved. Alberta, which is host to the bulk of Canada's significant oil reserves, on Thursday said it would suspend a ban on the sale of... →

By: Henry Lazenby21st February 2018
The British Columbia provincial government has released its Budget 2018 plan, confirming that the provincial flow-through exploration tax incentive will be extended for another year until the end of this year. The mining flow-through share programme is seen as critical to reinforcing the... →

By: Henry Lazenby9th February 2018
Ottawa on Thursday tabled new legislation to improve the federal environmental assessment process for mining projects. The legislation is aimed at strengthening and restoring the credibility of Canada's environmental laws. →

By: Bloomberg8th February 2018
The head of Rio Tinto Group’s aluminium division is confident the Trump administration will recognize that Canada must be viewed differently when considering import tariffs on the metal and in Nafta talks.
“There’s a clear recognition of the strategic importance of the Canadian industry to the... →

25th January 2018
For 25 years, Immersive Technologies has been working with mining companies across the globe to achieve Real Results in operator safety and productivity – these partnerships have for many years driven quantifiable operational improvement. Successfully achieving these results means consistently... →

25th January 2018
Immersive Technologies developed a series of WorksiteVR Quest www.immersivetechnologies.com virtual reality scenarios designed to facilitate a blended learning model in conjunction with eLearning and practical activities. Mine site inductions are necessary however often dry, boring, and... →

By: Reuters13th December 2017
Ottawa plans early next year to create an independent office to oversee Canadian mining, oil and gas companies' activities abroad, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, a move that environmental and human rights groups have long demanded.
The office would have both an "advisory and robust... →

25th May 2017
Fasken Martineau announced that, for the third consecutive year and the ninth time overall, it has been named “Global Mining Law Firm of the Year 2017” by Who’s Who Legal. Additionally, Michael Bourassa has received the “Lawyer of the Year 2017” award for Mining. With over 150 years’ experience... →

By: Bloomberg8th May 2017
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the leader of timber-rich British Columbia that he would consider her request to ban thermal coal shipments in retaliation for new US tariffs on softwood slumber.
In a letter to British Columbia Premier Christy Clark, a copy of which was posted on the... →

By: Henry Lazenby26th April 2017
The leader of the British Columbia Liberal party Christy Clark has written a letter to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling for a retaliatory ban on US thermal coal shipments through the province’s ports.
Clark, who has been the acting premier of the province since the legislative... →

By: Henry Lazenby3rd March 2017
Members of the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) on Thursday committed to implementing the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) – a world first for a mining association. The VPs were created in 2000 to help extractive sector companies balance the obligation to respect human... →

By: Henry Lazenby28th January 2017
Optimism has returned to the junior exploration industry, based on changed market fundamentals and more buoyant commodity prices, the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) president and CEO Gavin Dirom tells Mining Weekly Online in an interview. “It’s amazing what... →

By: Henry Lazenby7th December 2016
Canada’s maritime province of New Brunswick is following in the footsteps of the federal government and other provinces such as Alberta and Ontario to phase out or announce plans to completely phase out coal-fired electricity generation by 2030.
In its new action plan ‘Transitioning to a... →

By: Henry Lazenby30th November 2016
Canada’s Liberal federal government under leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has approved two out of three contentious crude oil pipelines in the country, critical infrastructure needed to get Canada’s vast oil reserves to new markets.
In a landmark decision, the Trudeau government has... →

By: Henry Lazenby25th November 2016
As part of the province’s ‘Climate Leadership Plan’, the Alberta government has agreed to pay three coal power producers operating in the province more than C$1-billion over the next 14 years to compensate them for prematurely shuttering their coal-fired power plants by 2030. The agreements will... →